Image by cambodia4kidsorg via Flickr Presenter: Jason Ohler I was so impressed by last night’s MLTI Keynote by Jason Ohler that I decided to attend his morning session on New Media Narrative in the Classroom at the MLTI Summer Institute in Castine, what many are calling Digital Storytelling. The ideas he presented last night just… [Read more…]
July 29, 2010
Jason Ohler – provided the MLTI Keynote presentation last night, he provided an introduction (from me at least) to Digital Story telling. I have seen the sites and even downloaded some PDF things on Digital Story telling, but I have not taken the time before, to see what it actually is about. Ohler’s keynote really… [Read more…]
July 25, 2010
Cover via Amazon I finished reading Teach Like a Champion (TLAC) a couple of days ago and needed to reflect a bit lot before actually writing this post. In my opinion the model presented in TLAC is very heavy into a Behaviorist, Teacher-centric model of teaching i.e. what has been characterized as the “Factory Method”. … [Read more…]
July 21, 2010
Today has been a totally amazing day. I crossed off one the most dreaded items on my TODO list today – create my first Webpage. Of all the things I have done in the tech side of my life, the one thing I haven’t done is complete a working webpage. Why? I have had way… [Read more…]
July 19, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Something I have wondered both as a parent and as a Teacher – Do other teachers actually like all the students they have in their classroom? Now this might seem like a dumb question and it seems that just about every teacher would answer “of course they like their students”. There is… [Read more…]
July 18, 2010
This post is about the frustrations I have felt as a Special Education teacher, Special Education student’s parent and having been involved in Special Education since 1989. It may not be this way everywhere, but from what I have seen and heard, what I have written below does bear some resemblance to reality, in far… [Read more…]
July 18, 2010
This is an updated version of my blog from November 4, 2009 when I created the Resource Room 220 blog. I have gone back and rewrote it for clarity AND to refocus the post on why I named my blog Resource Room 220. Why have I decided to create a blog named Resource Room 220? … [Read more…]
July 16, 2010
Since I decided to move back to WordPress last week, I have learned a lot about changing a blog over to a different blog host. In the process of this transfer, I ran into several questions about the physical setup and how they would relate to my goals for Resource Room 220. I found that… [Read more…]
July 13, 2010
Cover via Amazon The other day I was going clicking on links in Twitter – As usual I clicked on Shelly Terrell’s Teacher Reboot Camp to read her blog post on Free E-books and Resources for Your Summer Reading! I am glad that I did, because several of the links looked very interesting and I downloaded… [Read more…]
July 11, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Re-post from Blogger This is part 2 of my book review on Doug Lemov’s “Teaching Like a Champion”, I will be looking at Chapter one, which is titled “Setting High Academic Expectations”. He starts out with the following statement “One consistent finding of academic research is that high expectations are the most… [Read more…]
This blog focuses on teaching from a Special Education Teacher's perspective. I plan to provide my observations and/or insights into Special Education, English Language Arts, the help students receive in my Resource Room, pedagogical ideas and integrating technology/Web2.0 tools into the classroom.
My views have been molded by my experiences as a parent of a Special Education Student, a retired Coastie, teaching in a Special Purpose Private School and a Public School system.
July 29, 2010
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